McFarland v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably City of Indianapolis v. Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners (1974), Tillinghast v. Brown University (1902)
41 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on People Ex Rel. Geer v. Common Council of Troy · Armstrong v. Dunn · Dickerson's Appeal from Probate · E. G. Dailey Co. v. Clark Can Co. · Medical College v. Commingore
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . ‘The word “aggrieved” in the statute refers to a substantial grievance, a denial of some personal or property right or the imposition upon a party of a burden or obligation.’ (cites omitted) ‘To be “aggrieved” is to have a legal right the infringement of which by the decree complained of will cause pecuniary injury.’ (cites omitted)” “The appellant must have a legal interest which will be enlarged or diminished by the result of the appeal, (cites omitted) . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.